17 May 2019
First science results released on Ultima Thule
.... These pebbles can then clump together to form gravitationally bound pebble clouds. As they jostle around inside such a cloud, the pebbles will stick to one another and as the cloud loses heat and energy over time, it gradually contracts. This...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... orange plume rises from nearby Cape Canaveral after a failed test fire of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. If the cloud had reached people, it would have potentially caused severe burns on contact. (Jim Waymer/Florida Today/SpaceX...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... by SpaceX. Key drivers There are three main drivers of change in this market: the lower cost of satellites, the lower cost of launch and the availability of the cloud. It is this third element that brings everything together and makes space such...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... skater doing a spin who has pulled in their arms to gather speed, the spin from the cloud causes a disk to form as the material spins faster and falls toward the star. If the disk of gas is large enough, spiral arms form and...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... a hexagon has spawned spontaneously and identically at two different altitudes, one lower in the clouds and one high in the stratosphere, or the hexagon is in fact a towering structure spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometres.” Saturn...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, the ESA’s Planck satellite, and NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory to observe the interactions between the clouds in the Ophiuchus stellar nursery and the tell-tale production of gamma-rays from...
